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An Open Letter of Gratitude and Challenge to Facebook

Apr 01, 2012 12:13

Dear Facebook,

Thanks for kicking me off your site-and for not listening to me when I tried to talk you around your insane reinstatement policies. I know that probably sounds weird, so allow me to elaborate.

Like many denizens of the Internet, I happily joined your little club a few years back so I could connect with my friends. I had my doubts about ( Read more... )

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windscryer April 1 2012, 20:20:33 UTC

Yeah, I just said no thanks until they made it mandatory. Funny thing is, I probably would have gone along with it but THEIR system was down and after four attempts to get through, it said I was a spammer and would have to contact support directly.

I know, that logic hurts my brain too.

Anyway, when I *did* contact support, they said I had to send them a photocopy of my driver's license or passport. I told them that was just NOT going to happen since my state puts my social security number on it. They replied that they needed my full name, my picture, and my birthday on an official government ID to verify it was me so I could send a school ID and my birth certificate.. I told them they were muy loco and that it wouldn't help anyway since I didn't use my real name and there were no pictures of me on my Facebook. All they could verify was my birthdate and that's hardly specific to me.

I THEN got a sternly worded letter of censure for not using my real name on FB because how would people know it was me?

I didn't bother to reply that 1. That's bad Internet security to be so honest, 2. I have a stalker and so it was doubly dangerous for me to be honest, but with some judicious reworking of the truth I could still use their service, and 3. I know infants, dogs, and cars that have Facebooks, so obviously they're not as picky as they claim to be.

In the end, I took it as the wake up call it was and now count myself lucky. I am sad at some of the connections I lost, but I do have other means of contacting them if I do choose, so I will survive.

Seriously though I thought the first email asking for photocopies was a joke. They cannot play dumb on this. They are too big on the Internet and have been around too long. They KNOW that's stupid. I am toying with the idea of reporting them to someone because I'm not entirely sure that's legal.

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